February 25, 2009

Here's a list of planned features for SuperTuxKart version 0.7. This may not be a complete list, and plans might change later on, but these are some of the main goals:

Move from PLIB to the Irrlicht Engine. This includes a total rewrite of the GUI.

Support animations for kart drivers, and for track features.

Replace drivelines with a more flexbile graph-based data structure.

Support moving (environmental) objects on the track better.

Replace shortcut detection with check lines, so track builders have more control over possible shortcuts.

As you see, there's lots of exciting stuff the developers want to achieve, and some of this is already under development. But there's always room for more programmers and artists (2D, 3D, music, sound), so if you want to help out, see the FAQ for more detailed information.Any help would be highly appreciated.

February 19, 2009

Due to a bug related to groups in battle mode, new binaries under the name of SuperTuxKart 0.6.1a have been uploaded. For those who have 0.6.1 already installed, patches for Windows and MacOS are available, containing nothing but the bugfix. So, no need to download the whole game again if you have STK 0.6.1 installed.

February 18, 2009

SuperTuxKart version 0.6.1. fixes some minor bugs of the 0.6 release, adds a new kart, a new battle map, and better support for add-on packages. We also release a first add-on package, which contains 7 additional karts and 6 tracks. Some of the tracks and karts in this package are new, some are models that were removed from the main distribution. Note: you need SuperTuxKart 0.6.1 to use the add-on package. Both can be found on ourdownloadpage.More extensive changelog is below.

SuperTuxKart 0.6.1 (February 2009)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Added new kart ("Puffy"), new battle map ("Cave"), and new music for Snow Mountain.

Fixed bug in track selection screen that could cause a crash when track groups were used.

Fixed crash in character selection that could happen if an old user config file existed.